July 2010

07/31/2010

Following up on an item from yesterday, it appears Republican reverence for all things related to the 9/11 attacks is officially over.

Congress turned thumbs down on the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act on Thursday night, raising doubts it will ever pass.

Most Republicans refused to back the measure, calling it a “slush fund,” and saying it was another example of Democratic overreach and an “insatiable” appetite for taxpayers’ money.

The bill would spend $3.2 billion on health care over the next 10 years for people sickened from their exposure to the toxic smoke and debris of the shattered World Trade Center. It would spend another $4.2 billion to compensate victims over that span, and make another $4.2 billion in compensation available for the next 11 years.

So, as Republicans see it, we can afford tax breaks for billionaires. But care for 9/11 victims, not so much.

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), perhaps best known for his apology to BP after the company’s oil spill, “said the rest of the country should not bear the brunt of helping New Yorkers cope with the aftermath of the terror attacks.” [Update: To clarify, this is a paraphrase from the New York Daily News, not a direct quote of Barton.]

How could House Republicans kill the bill in a majority-rule chamber? As it turns out, Dems brought the measure to the floor as a “suspension bill,” because they didn’t want the GOP to try to gut the legislation with poison-pill amendments. But this strategy meant the bill needed a two-thirds majority to pass. The final vote was 255 to 159 — far short of the two-thirds threshold — with 155 Republicans in opposition, many of them saying they would consider supporting the bill, but only if the GOP were allowed to push unrelated amendments intended to embarrass the majority.

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y), whose constituents include many directly affected by this legislation, wasn’t especially impressed with the Republican argument:

07/27/2010

The people who supported
you, who believed in the change that you promised, have stuck by you patiently
and cut you a lot of slack.They vowed
to remain loyal, unless you flat out lied to them, and now you have crossed the
line from Obama to Obusha and, now, it's just Obullshit.

In an entrancing speech to
Congress in 2009 you said:

"For seven years, we have been a nation at war.

No longer will we
hide its price."

You were referring to the
sneaky way that the Cheney-Bush regime funded the war--off the books.Instead of asking the Congress for more money
for war, those pig fuckers went around the budget process and asked for
"supplemental" amounts to keep the war machine churning out bones and
guts.

They were using the "devious
practice of using supplemental spending bills - emergency cash transfusions
that are separated from the annual federal budget - to funnel off money for
war. This parliamentary trick masks the yearly cost of war, which would
otherwise appear as one massive lump sum, by breaking it up into bite-size,
deceptively digestible chunks.

Supplementals are intended
for emergencies in which large amounts of money are suddenly needed: a
huge-scale natural disaster, an unexpected war of defense, a Mars attack."
[article below]

Guess who wrote this in a letter to Congress?

"We must break that recent tradition and include future
military costs in the regular budget so that we have an honest, more accurate
and fiscally responsible estimate of federal spending..."

Well, that same guy, just 16 months later, has sent a supplemental
spending request, which would sign away $33 billion more for Afghanistan and
Iraq, those funds are heaped on top of the $159.3 billion that Congress
approved (with little fuss) for the wars in May.

There is an old expression
that goes like this:'If it walks like a
duck, quacks like a duck and acts like a duck--it must be a duck.'

Ergo, if a President funds
his wars like a pig fucker...

We paid a lot to get you
elected and we have been patiently waiting, but with this Big Lie, we can now
stop asking: "Hey, where's my change?"

You counted on the saying
that "Hope dies last."

Well, now it's been
strangled in its crib.

"What happens to a dream deferred... does it dry up like a raisin
in the sun? Or does it explode?"

In a moving statement before Congress in February
2009, President Obama made a promise. "For seven years, we have been a
nation at war," he said. "No longer will we hide its price."

Obama was referring to the Bush administration's
devious practice of using supplemental spending bills - emergency cash
transfusions that are separated from the annual federal budget - to
funnel off money for war. This parliamentary trick masks the yearly cost
of war, which would otherwise appear as one massive lump sum, by
breaking it up into bite-size, deceptively digestible chunks.

Supplementals are intended for emergencies in which
large amounts of money are suddenly needed: a huge-scale natural
disaster, an unexpected war of defense, a Mars attack. The Bush
administration used a supplemental to fund the early stages of the war
in Afghanistan, then kept doing it ... and doing it and doing it.
Throughout his tenure, Bush sent 17 war supplementals to Congress, and
they all passed with flying (bipartisan) colors.

As someone who'd spent the previous four years
chronicling Bush's slimy war funding ways, I was particularly relieved
by Obama's words in 2009. Maybe, I thought, when Congress and the
American people are confronted with that giant, ugly price tag for war
hanging from the frail skeleton of our federal budget at the start of
the year, reality will hit and plans to bring the troops home - for real
- will become more than just a progressive talking point floating in
the legislative ether.

However, less than two months after his bold
pronouncement, the president slipped in a request for $76 billion in
off-the-books war funds. He helped ease the sting of this hypocrisy
slightly by promising that the ol' supplemental shortcut would never
happen again.

"We must break that recent tradition and include
future military costs in the regular budget so that we have an honest,
more accurate and fiscally responsible estimate of federal spending," he
wrote in a letter to Congress.

But 16 months later, the tradition hasn't been broken. It's been broken in.

Obama's latest supplemental spending request, which
would sign away $33 billion more for Afghanistan and Iraq, is hovering
on the brink of passage. Those billions would be heaped on top of the
$159.3 billion that Congress approved (with little fuss) for the wars in
May.

Now, if ever, Congress should be fussing - and so should the rest of us. The "Afghan War Diary"
released by WikiLeaks Sunday night confirms what we've known for years:
we're mired in a war that is failing more and more by the day, a war of
hopeless destruction and pointless death. Alliances are ever-muddling,
corruption is status quo. It's clear that, despite our gracious imperial
assistance, democracy won't be flowering out from the graveyard of
empires anytime soon.

Going into this week's vote on the supplemental, the
House has particular reason to fuss. Last week, the Senate stripped the
war funding bill of most of its cheerier components: domestic economy
boosters like funds for teacher jobs, assistance for youth summer job
programs and aid for needy families. In the interest of passing a "clean
bill," Republicans and Republican-minded "Democrats" have turned the
supplemental into a pure, untainted bad idea.

This round of supplemental decision making is a rough
scene. Obama has settled into his predecessor's war funding routine.
Congress members haven't kicked the nasty habit of smashing piggy banks
every time war funding is running low. And activist groups - the same
ones that rallied around this issue with fervor just two years ago -
haven't been shouting nearly as loud.

So, what now?

Just because Obama has gotten comfy with the idea of
endless funds for war doesn't mean that Congress and the rest of us need
to mirror that inertia.

Sometimes it's a time to compromise, sometimes, a time to ask nicely. Now it is the Time to Fuss.

This week's House debate on the supplemental could be
an exercise in depressive apathy, with the blessed Dennis Kuciniches of
the chamber calling passionately (but practically solitarily) for
withdrawal from the War of Error. But, in the wake of the WikiLeaks
release and the Senate job-funding massacre, not to mention the wars'
diminishing public approval ratings, this debate could take a creative
turn.

This supplemental vote could mark a turning point. It
could present a real opportunity to consider and discuss the
on-the-ground implications of these $33 billion dollars, piled atop the
$159 billion, weighing down on the more than a trillion dollars already
exhausted by almost ten years of hubris and senseless violence.

A true dialog in Congress about where this money is
going is long overdue. For the past 18 war supplementals, much of
Congress has bent over backwards to justify the "emergency" nature of
the spending, the standard line being a refusal to "abandon the troops."
However, as numerous Congressional Research Service reports and
Truthout analyses
have shown, the troops will get their paychecks - and their body armor -
even if a supplemental never passes again. The president can invoke the
Feed and Forage Act and draw funds from the Treasury if the mess hall
cupboards (or the payroll bank) ever go bare.

If Congress members would look past that "emergency"
logic, they'd see the supplemental for what it is: simply another round
of fuel for the engine of ongoing war. They'd also recognize their own
power to cut the tank short.

Congress's "power of the purse" is its No. 1 check on
executive blunders, especially on enormous, deadly, long-lasting
blunders like the Vietnam War, which Congress ended by halting military
funding for South Vietnam.

The war in Afghanistan has already surpassed Vietnam in length. It's
time for Congress to take a hint from history, to stop loosening the
purse strings and start fussing - starting with this week's supplemental
debate.

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An Earthquake Warning

In case you missed Clif,
chief time monk, High's appearances on CoastToCoast last night during the show's
first hour, the most important thing he had to say (very near term) was a heads
up for the West Coast over the possibility based on predictive
linguistics of a major quake toward the end of this week or maybe into the
weekend...

"Within the immediacy data sets there are
clear indications of a major [damaging] earthquake on west coast of america
(MOST likely north america due to angular momentum issues of planetary
alignment) and more probably than not, in the PNW perhaps down to mid CA. This
quake shows as being completed with problems, *such as yet more [wedding
interruptions] by August 3, however the data accretion patterns point to the
last two days of July as the point of impact and largest number of after shocks.
Damages are indicated to include [roadways] and [bridges] such that
[transportation/movement] is [restricted (in some places)] for months afterward.
Water flows are also to be affected and even altered for long time
(months/years) which is how i found it. By noting the odd number of longer term
indicators for [water pathways change] in the data accretion patterns for
November and onward in 2010. A significant majority of these traced back to
something in the immediacy data that turned out to be this pending earthquake in
very late July. "

This just fell out' from
the processing of the long term data set values which should result in a longer
view of the data...out to beyond the end of this year. The expectation is that
there will be a new report available
sometime around the August 10-period. But, the reason for mentioning this
now is that there is still plenty of time to get the stored water
checked, food, first aid kits, and such on the West Coast.

The Gawker Web site said it received a tip about a BP photo taken from inside a helicopter, that shows a
panorama of vessels working on the sea surface near the damaged well. The view
through the windows makes it appear as though the helicopter is in the air.

But the astute tipster noticed a small glimpse of a control tower in a corner
of the photograph. A poor Photoshop job left some white space around the
shoulder of one of the pilots next to a patch of sea that was a brighter shade
of blue than other parts of the gulf. In addition, zooming in on the
helicopter's gauges reveals that the helicopter is not in the air at all; the
dashboard indicates that the door and ramp are open and the parking brake
engaged, Gawker noted. The pilot appears to be holding a pre-flight checklist.

BP spokesman Scott Dean sent The Post the original photograph. The Waldos
don't jump out at you. The helicopter was actually on the deck of a vessel at
the spill site so the panorama of ships in the distance was there in the
original photo. But the photographer, who is working on contract to BP, pasted
in blue sea where the edge of the landing pad was showing. He also adjusted
colors and contrast so that the interior of the helicopter was brighter, Dean
said.

While the changes were minor, the embarrassment was major, coming at a time
when the oil giant is trying to convince the American public that it is being
open and transparent about the oil spill.

The helicopter photo is the third doctored BP image outed by bloggers this
week. Earlier, Americablog.com noticed that BP had altered an image of its crisis
response center in Houston. The company's photographer had clumsily filled in
blank spaces on a wall of subsea video feeds with images taken by some of the
remotely operated vehicles. It is normal for some of those ROVs to be idle and
to have some blank feeds.

Americablog also exposed an altered image from the Houston office, showing a technical team
in front of a large projection screen. The image on the projection screen had
been enhanced using Photoshop.

BP's Dean also provided the original of that photo to The Post. In the
original, the screen appears to be entirely white because of the light contrast
with the rest of the room. Dean said that the photographer used "the color
saturation tool" to show "a clearer version of the same image on the projection
screen."

Dean said that the altered helicopter and headquarters photographs, like the
doctored one of the Houston control room, would be promptly taken down from the
BP Web site. The original and altered versions would be placed on BP's Flickr
site so people can compare them, Dean said.

07/21/2010

"The sole purpose in the Gulf for dispersants is to keep a
cover-up going for BP to try to hide the volume of oil that has been
released and save them hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars
of fines. That’s the purpose of using the dispersants, not to protect
the public health or environment. Quite the opposite." [
Hugh Kaufman, a senior policy analyst at the EPA’s Office of Solid
Waste and Emergency Response. He’s been a leading critic of the decision
to use Corexit.]

"Corexit is one of a number of
dispersants, that are toxic, that are used to atomize the oil and force
it down the water column so that it’s invisible to the eye. In this
case, these dispersants were used in massive quantities, almost two
million gallons so far, to hide the magnitude of the spill and save BP
money. And the government—both EPA, NOAA, etc.—have been sock puppets
for BP in this cover-up. Now, by hiding the amount of spill, BP is
saving hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars in fines, and
so, from day one, there was tremendous economic incentive to use these
dispersants to hide the magnitude of the gusher that’s been going on for
almost three months.

Congressman Markey and Nadler, as well as Senator Mikulski, have
been heroes in this respect. Congressman Markey made the BP and
government put a camera down there to show the public the gusher. And
when they did that, experts saw that the amount of material, oil being
released, is orders of magnitudes greater than what BP and NOAA and EPA
were saying. And the cover-up started to evaporate.

But the use of dispersants has not. Consequently, we have people,
wildlife—we have dolphins that are hemorrhaging. People who work near
it are hemorrhaging internally. And that’s what dispersants are supposed
to do. EPA now is taking the position that they really don’t know how
dangerous it is, even though if you read the label, it tells you how
dangerous it is.

And, for example, in the Exxon Valdez case, people who
worked with dispersants, most of them are dead now. The average death
age is around fifty. It’s very dangerous, and it’s an economic—it’s an
economic protector of BP, not an environmental protector of the public.

Now, the one thing that I did want to mention to you, Amy, that’s
occurred in most investigations, back even in the Watergate days,
people said, "follow the money." And that’s correct. In this case,
you’ve got to follow the money.

Who saves money by using these toxic
dispersants? Well, it’s BP. But then the next question—I’ve only seen
one article that describes it—who owns BP? And I think when you look and
see who owns BP, you find that it’s the majority ownership, a billion
shares, is a company called BlackRock that was created, owned and run by
a gentleman named Larry Fink.

And Vanity Fair just did recently
an article about Mr. Fink and his connections with Mr. Geithner, Mr.
Summers and others in the administration. So I think what’s needed, we
now know that there’s a cover-up. Dispersants are being used. Congress,
at least three Congress folks—Congressman Markey, Congressman Nadler and
Senator Mikulski—are on the case. And I think the media now has to
follow the money, just as they did in Watergate, and tell the American
people who’s getting money for poisoning the millions of people in the
Gulf.

1.8 million pounds of it have been dumped into the
Gulf. What’s in Corexit? Do we know? What is EPA allowed to know, and
what is the company allowed to keep private?

HUGH KAUFMAN: EPA has all the information on what’s in—the
ingredients are. The largest ingredient in Corexit is oil. But there
are other materials. And when the ingredients are mixed with oil, the
combination of Corexit or any dispersant and oil is more toxic than the
oil itself. But EPA has all that information. That’s a red herring issue
being raised, that we have to somehow know more information. When you
look at the label and you look at the toxicity sheets that come with it,
the public knows enough to know that it’s very dangerous. The National
Academy of Science has done work on it. Toxicologists from Exxon that
developed it have published on it. So, we know enough to know that it’s
very dangerous, and to say that we just have to know more about it is a
red herring issue. We know plenty. It’s very dangerous. And in fact,
Congressman Nadler and Senator Lautenberg are working on legislation to
ban it.

HUGH KAUFMAN: Well, not only do you have airplanes flying
and dropping them on the Gulf region, like Agent Orange in Vietnam, but a
large amount of it is being shot into the water column at 5,000 feet to
disperse the oil as it gushers out. And so, you have spread, according
to the Associated Press, over perhaps over 44,000 square miles, an oil
and dispersant mix. And what’s happened is, that makes it impossible to
skim the oil out of the water. One of the things that happened is they
brought this big boat, Whale, in from Japan to get rid of the
oil, and it didn’t work because the majority of the oil is spread
throughout the water column over thousands of square miles in the Gulf.
And so—and there’s been a lot of work to show the dispersants, which is
true, make it more difficult to clean up the mess than if you didn’t use
them. The sole purpose in the Gulf for dispersants is to keep a
cover-up going for BP to try to hide the volume of oil that has been
released and save them hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars
of fines. That’s the purpose of using the dispersants, not to protect
the public health or environment. Quite the opposite. "

Anders
Fogh Rasmussen told the meeting of foreign ministers that coalition
troops would stay in the country even after Afghan troops had taken
complete control of security.

He said that when the full
transition finally happened, "international forces won't leave, they
will simply move into a supportive role".

Opening
the conference, held in a government building in central Kabul, the
Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, said he "remained determined" that
Afghan security forces should take full responsibility of all military and police operations by 2014.

The scale of the problem
facing the Nato forces as they move to hand over control of security in
the country was underlined today when an Afghan soldier killed two US
civilians and another Afghan soldier at a weapons training area in
Mazar-e-Sharif, in the north.

The Afghan soldier appears to have
turned on his colleagues, shooting the two Americans and the Afghan
before himself being killed.

The incident comes just days after
another renegade Afghan soldier killed three British soldiers
in their base near Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province.

For
most European countries, any transition to Afghan control that would
allow them to take their troops home cannot happen swiftly enough.

The
United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, said the conference, the
first of nine international meetings to be held in Afghanistan since
2001, marked the "beginning of a very fundamental transition" to Afghan
control.

But Rasmussen said the shift would happen slowly, and on
the basis of "conditions, not calendars".

"Transition will be done gradually – on the basis of a sober
assessment of the political and security situation, so that it is
irreversible," he said.

Highlighting the difficulty of locking
down the Afghan capital with so many big-name politicians attending the
conference, rocket fire on the outskirts of the city earlier forced a
plane carrying Ban and Sweden's foreign minister, Carl Bildt, to be
diverted as it tried to land. They touched down instead at the US
airbase in Bagram, outside Kabul, from where they travelled by
helicopter to the conference.

"A few unguided rockets landed on
the outskirts of Kabul city last night and in the early hours of the
morning," said Lieutenant Commander Katie Kendrick, a spokeswoman for
the international military coalition.

Addressing the meeting of
some 68 delegates from different countries and international
organisations, the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, defended her
country's decision to start withdrawing some of its troops in July 2011.

The
deadline, set last year in a speech by Barack Obama, has been widely
criticised for fuelling concerns that the US will not stay the course.

Clinton
said the date showed both the country's "sense of urgency and our
strength of resolve".

"The transition process is too important to
push off indefinitely," she said.

"But this date is the start of a
new phase, not the end of our involvement. We have no intention of
abandoning our long-term mission of achieving a stable, secure, peaceful
Afghanistan. Too many nations – especially Afghanistan – have suffered
too many losses to see this country slide backward."

Contrary to a news media narrative that Iranian scientist Shahram
Amiri has provided intelligence on covert Iranian nuclear weapons work,
CIA sources familiar with the Amiri case say he told his CIA handlers
that there is no such Iranian nuclear weapons programme, according to a
former CIA officer.

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA counterterrorism
official, told IPS that his sources are CIA officials with direct
knowledge of the entire Amiri operation.

The CIA contacts say that Amiri had been reporting
to the CIA for some time before being brought to the U.S. during Hajj
last year, Giraldi told IPS, initially using satellite-based
communication. But the contacts also say Amiri was a radiation safety
specialist who was "absolutely peripheral" to Iran's nuclear programme,
according to Giraldi.

Amiri provided "almost no information" about
Iran's nuclear programme, said Giraldi, but had picked up "scuttlebutt"
from other nuclear scientists with whom he was acquainted that the
Iranians have no active nuclear weapon programme.

Giraldi said information from Amiri's debriefings
was only a minor contribution to the intelligence community's
reaffirmation in the latest assessment of Iran's nuclear programme of
the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE)'s finding that work on a
nuclear weapon has not been resumed after being halted in 2003.

Amiri's confirmation is cited in one or more
footnotes to the new intelligence assessment of Iran's nuclear
programme, called a "Memorandum to Holders", according to Giraldi, but
it is now being reviewed, in light of Amiri's "re- defection" to Iran.

An intelligence source who has read the
"Memorandum to Holders" in draft form confirmed to IPS that it presents
no clear-cut departure from the 2007 NIE on the question of
weaponisation. The developments in the Iranian nuclear programme since
the 2007 judgment are portrayed as "subtle and complex", said the
source.

CIA officials are doing their best to "burn" Amiri
by characterising him as a valuable long-term intelligence asset,
according to Giraldi, in part in order to sow as much distrust of him
among Iranian intelligence officials as possible.

But Giraldi said it is "largely a defence
mechanism" to ward off criticism of the agency for its handling of the
Amiri case.

"The fact is he wasn't well vetted," said Giraldi,
adding that Amiri was a "walk- in" about whom virtually nothing was
known except his job.

Although an investigation has begun within the CIA
of the procedures used in the case, Giraldi said, Amiri's erstwhile CIA
handlers still do not believe he was a double agent or "dangle".

What convinced CIA officers of Amiri's sincerity,
according to Giraldi, was Amiri's admission that he had no direct
knowledge of the Iranian nuclear programme.

A "dangle" would normally be prepared with some
important intelligence that the U.S. is known to value.

Amiri's extremely marginal status in relation to
the Iranian nuclear programme was acknowledged by an unnamed U.S.
official who told The New York Times and Associated Press Friday that
Amiri was indeed a "low-level scientist", but that the CIA had hoped to
use him to get to more highly placed Iranian officials.

Giraldi's revelations about Amiri's reporting
debunks a media narrative in which Amiri provided some of the key
evidence for a reversal by the intelligence community of its 2007
conclusion that Iran had not resumed work on nuclear weapons.

An Apr. 25 story by Washington Post reporters Joby
Warrick and Greg Miller said the long-awaited reassessment of the
Iranian nuclear programme had been delayed in order to incorporate a
"new flow of intelligence" coming from "informants, including scientists
with access to Iran's military programs&."

They quote Director of National Intelligence
Dennis C. Blair as explaining in an interview that the delay was because
of "information coming in and the pace of developments".

Warrick and Miller reported that Amiri had
"provided spy agencies with details about sensitive programs including a
long-hidden uranium-enrichment plant near the city of Qom." Their
sources were said to be "current and former officials in the United
States and Europe".

Warrick and Miller could not get CIA officials to
discuss Amiri. Instead they quoted the National Council of Resistance in
Iran (NCRI) as saying that Amiri "has been associated with sensitive
nuclear programs for at least a decade".

NCRI is the political arm of Mujahideen-e-Khalq
(MEK), the anti-regime Iranian terrorist organization which has been a
conduit for Israeli intelligence on the Iranian nuclear programme.

On Jun. 8, David E. Sanger of the New York Times
cited "foreign diplomats and some American officials" as sources in
reporting that a series of intelligence briefings for members of the
U.N. Security Council last spring amounted to "a tacit admission by the
United States that it is gradually backing away" from the 2007 NIE.
Sanger referred to "new evidence" that allegedly led analysts to "revise
and in some cases reverse" that estimate's conclusion that Iran was no
longer working on a nuclear weapon.

Sanger cited "Western officials" as confirming
that Amiri was providing some of the new information.

Three days later, the Washington Post ran another
story quoting David Albright, director of the Institute for Science and
International Security, as saying that the intelligence briefings for
Security Council members had included "information about nuclear
weaponisation" obtained from Amiri.

Albright said he had been briefed on the
intelligence earlier that week, and the Post reported a "U.S. official"
had confirmed Albright's account.

Subsequently, ABC News reported that Amiri's
evidence had "helped to contradict" the 2007 NIE, and McClatchy
Newspapers repeated Albright's allegation and the conclusion that the
new assessment had reversed the intelligence conclusion that Iran had
ceased work related to weaponisation.

In creating that false narrative, journalists have
evidently been guided by personal convictions on the issue that are
aligned with certain U.S., European and Israeli officials who have been
pressuring the Barack Obama administration to reject the 2007 estimate.

For the Israelis and for some U.S. officials,
reversing the conclusion that Iran is not actively pursuing
weaponisation is considered a precondition for manoeuvring U.S. policy
into a military confrontation with Iran.

Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and
journalist specialising in U.S. national security policy. The paperback
edition of his latest book, "Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and
the Road to War in Vietnam", was published in 2006.

"On-going
research is primarily directed at early
Earth evolution, including magmatic, surficial, and biological systems.
This work, mostly in South Africa and Australia, has been supported much of
the time by grants from NSF and NASA.
NSF has just renewed support for my work in the Archean of South Africa."
[http://zoe.geol.lsu.edu/Byerly/Byerly.html]

But, before we declare: "Mission Accomplished," let's see who is pulling the
strings of the MSM Marionettes on this channel of the corporate-controlled Main
Stream Media.

Q: "Who's
the leader of the club?"

DISNEY
owns ABC

Oil
industry connections?

* Major
shareholders include Sid R. Bass, oil and gas baron.

* Disney
donated $640,000 to George W Bush's 2000 political campaign.

Penetration?24% of
US households.

Hmm...Something
doesn't smell right here...cheezy business... or

an oil leak?

"Disney's environmental and social record: The
company has been accused of human rights violations regarding the working
conditions in factories that produce their merchandise.

Numerous
environmental groups in Florida and California have criticized development
procedures used in building theme parks including damage to wetlands.

An
environmental management plan for a zone of Great Guana Cay, in the Abaco
Islands, criticized Disney for poor management of a 90-acre (36.4 ha)
tract of the island. Disney partially developed but then abandoned the place,
which was to have been a cruise ship resort called Treasure Island. The report,
by the University of Miami and the College of the Bahamas, blames Disney for
leaving hazardous materials, electrical transformers, and fuel tanks, and for
introducing invasive alien plants and insects that threaten the natural flora
and fauna of the island. [Source wikipedia.org]

MEMO

TO: DIANE SAWYER

FROM: EARL NASH

SUBJECT: GULF COAST DISASTER - NEVER MIND

You can come back from the Gulf coast, your
corporate bosses have determined that the official "story line" about
the growing methane disaster will be:"nothing
like that is going to happen."

07/19/2010

The White House and BP have kept a dirty little secret from you for many
weeks:after the well explosion, a major
breach in the seabed was discovered, several miles from the well head.The PTB (Powers That Be) have employed the
first principal of deception in a magic trick: they have you focused on the
"mouse" (the leak at the well head) to keep you from noticing the
"elephant" behind it (the rupture of the sea bed.) Thus have the PTB, including the White House
and BP, kept the media away from the scene of the crime.

If you think capping a well pipe is difficult, try capping gaping holes
(some more than 10 miles long) on the sea bed of the Gulf of Mexico.

It gets worse:there are independent
reports from citizen sailors that there are several, perhaps several dozen,
huge gashes in the sea floor that are leaking both oil and methane.

As was reported here last week:

"The urgency was created by NOAA's report to Obama
stating that the growing numbers of oil spouts (plumes) rising from the ocean
floor from new cracks indicate growing pressure."

We told you that scientists stated that this could create several
explosions, or, at worst, a huge single
event that would send a giant wave (50-200 feet high) at 50-70 MPH into the
coastline of the Gulf states.

Reports still indicate that methane is flooding the Gulf waters at a
rate one million times more than normal, and the NOAA research vessel, Thomas
Jefferson has reported spotting new fissures.

Two weeks ago the science ship stunned some
reporters with the revelation that the oceanographic team had discovered and
measured a rift in the ocean floor miles from the BP wellhead. The rift was reported to be more
than 100 feet long and widening. Oil and methane continues to plume from that
rift. BP
has also admitted damage beneath the sea floor.

Scientists had
warned BP about the enormous bubble of methane that was trapped in the drill
zone and specifically pointed out that drilling too deep could puncture the
bubble and set off the release of the methane, which would endanger the
plants and animals in the Gulf and the humans on its shores.A worst case scenario would be a repeat of a
methane release that ended all life on the planet in the age of the dinosaurs.

Sources inside the
investigation of BP say that the company breached its permit, which limited it
to a drilling depth of 14,500 feet, by drilling further than 30,000
feet; despite warnings that drilling that deep could cause create pressure well
over safe levels, which would cause the spewing oil to reach a temperature of
500 degrees Fahrenheit, which would cause the frozen methane gas bubbles to
melt and send catastrophic amounts of the gas into the ocean and into the
atmosphere.

BP, by drilling
deeper than approved and atop an enormous bubble of methane likely pricked the high-pressure
balloon and has triggered the release of the methane.The escaping methane is now flowing under the
sea bed and popping out all over the Gulf of Mexico.

A similar methane
release, caused by a natural cycle, ended all life on the planet in the
age of the dinosaurs.

Will this
release, caused by illegal oil drilling, fulfill many "End
Days" prophecies and end all life on Earth?

07/18/2010

Before some other
fool declares "Mission Accomplished" with the capping of the BP oil
well, realize that the disaster may have just begun with the release of methane
across the seabed and the spread of the toxic effects of the dispersant COREXIT
and, consider the anomaly of the pressure now being too LOW.

"With the
pressure now virtually level at 6,700 [psi], it's at the lower end of the
ambiguity range, so it seems there is a good chance there is leak-off. That
makes a lot of sense to me since there [are] 1,200 feet of open hole from the
bottom of the 9 /7/8" liner to TD at about 18,300 feet. That's not to
mention possible casing damage up hole. Think of it like a garden hose with a
nozzle on the end. As long as the nozzle is open, the hose looks fine. As soon
as you close the nozzle, the hose will leak through any pinholes or around the
faucet as pressure builds inside." [the Daily Hurricane]

Worse still is
the possibility that the oil and methane are leaking through fissures all over
the Gulf of Mexico; NOAA has identified several and the rise in the methane
levels in the seawater are another indication that the pressure from the
punctured Oil-Cano, 20 miles in diameter under the BP well, is being released
elsewhere.

The urgency was created by NOAA's report to Obama stating that the growing
numbers of oil spouts (plumes) rising from the ocean floor from new cracks
indicate growing pressure, which could create several explosions, or a huge
single event that would send a giant wave (50-200 feet high) at 50-70 MPH into
the coastline of the Gulf states.

Today, with concerns that the spider web network of Gulf seabed fissures is
growing, and recent confirmation of at least one other confirmed oil plume NOAA
is searching for two more suspected ones, and will report the results to the
President.

Sea floor compromised

Reports
still indicate that methane is flooding the Gulf waters at a rate one million
times more than normal, and the NOAA research vessel, Thomas Jefferson has
reported spotting new fissures. [1]

Last
week the science ship stunned some reporters with the revelation that the
oceanographic team had discovered and measured a rift in the ocean floor miles
from the BP wellhead. The rift was reported to be more than 100 feet long and
widening. Oil and methane continues to plume from that rift. BP has also
admitted damage beneath the sea floor. [2]

Scientists had warned BP about the enormous
bubble of methane that was trapped in the drill zone and specifically pointed
out that drilling too deep could puncture the bubble and set off the release of
the methane, which would endanger the plants and animals in the Gulf and the
humans on its shores.A worst case
scenario would be a repeat of a methane release that ended all life on the
planet in the age of the dinosaurs.

Sources inside the investigation of BP say
that the company breached its permit, which limited it to a drilling depth of
14,500 feet, by drilling further than 30,000 feet; despite warnings that
drilling that deep could cause create pressure well over safe levels, which
would cause the spewing oil to reach a temperature of 500 degrees Fahrenheit
and, which would cause the frozen methane gas bubbles to melt and send
catastrophic amounts of the gas into the ocean and into the atmosphere.

Thus. the oil leak may be just the trigger
for the greater problems created by the release of methane.

In
the first half of Sunday night's Coast to Coast show, George Noory was joined
by Richard C. Hoagland for
a discussion on the potential catastrophic dangers that could result from the
accumulation of methane in the Gulf. He pointed to evidence which suggests that
a massive bulge of methane is forming beneath the ocean floor. Should it
suddenly burst, Hoagland warned, the methane would reduce the buoyancy of the
water, causing large ships in the area to "sink like a rock," killing
thousands of people instantly. Subsequently, the collapse of the bulge would
cause water to fill the hole and create a tsunami that would hit
anyone within a mile or two of the Gulf within minutes. In light of this
theory, he posited that the lack of action coming from Washington is because
they know of this potential danger and are trying to protect people by not
filling the Gulf with boats as part of a clean-up effort.

Unfortunately, Hoagland lamented, since BP's mud log data is
proprietary and unavailable to independent scientists, there is no way of
predicting when such an event may occur. Therefore, he urged C2C listeners
to contact Louisiana resident and prominent TV pundit James Carville, in the
hopes of creating momentum in the mainstream media for this information to be
made public. Beyond that, Hoagland's advice for people in the area was simply
"get out of the Gulf region of Mexico because the Feds are not telling you
the real danger." For those residents unable or unwilling to leave the
region, he advised that the methane in the air carries a "huge
cocktail of bizarre gases" that could prove deadly, immediately or over
time, if inhaled. As such, he suggested that people in the area acquire
gas masks to breathe and an ozone generator to purify the air, "otherwise,
you gotta move, you gotta leave, you can't keep breathing this air."

Another major source
of methane gas comes from frozen hydrate crystals which exist on the sea floor
in vast quantities. Due to very cold temperatures and high pressure, they stay
locked in place until they are awakened from their slumber by the very
conditions that now predominate in the region around the wellhead. The gushing
oil may be as hot as 300 to 400 F, which greatly affects the undersea dynamics,
and especially the state of these hydrates. Also, it is quite
noteworthy that we have no experience with the introduction of massive volumes
of dispersants at the wellhead under those extraordinary conditions. What will
be the ultimate effects on methane conversion and release throughout the region
in terms of ramping up an already very dynamic and volatile situation on the
seafloor?

There are other
sources of methane, which occur under the seafloor in various types of
“repositories,” that are being affected by movements of the earth, as well as
by dramatic temperature fluctuations. These reservoirs are undoubtedly
releasing methane gas, as are the seafloor surface beds of trapped frozen
methane crystals. Almost all of the released methane gas from these sources
will eventually rise to the surface of the Gulf, some of it accumulating as
hovering gas bubbles which will then dissipate over time. They concentrate and
disperse, come and go according to the scientific properties of methane gas behavior.

Then,
there is the third threat from the "accident:" the unprecedented use
of massive amounts of the dispersant COREXIT (as in: corrects it!).

Consider
that the lab tests were conducted indoors under artificial light; a scientist
familiar with the testing says that the levels of toxicity, when measured
OUTDOORS in SUNLIGHT, could "easily be thousands of times more toxic"
than the lab results stated.

What
will do to the intakes of de-salinization and nuclear power plants?

And that’s what that Corexit does; it ruptures
red blood cells, causes internal bleeding, and liver and kidney damage. …

This stuff is so toxic combined… not the oil or
dispersants alone. …

Very, very toxic and goes right through skin.

The reason this is so toxic is because of
these solvents [from dispersant] that penetrate the skin of
anything that’s going through the dispersed oil takes the oil into the
cells — takes the oil into the organs… and this stuff is toxic to every
organ system in the body. …

Similarly, marine biologist and toxicologist Dr. Chris Pincetich - who has an
extensive background in testing the affects of chemicals on fish - says that
Corexit disrupts cell membranes.

He also explains that EPA toxicity testing for Corexit is woefully inadequate,
since EPA testing for mortality usually only requires a 96-hour time
frame. His doctoral research found that fish that were alive at 96 hours after
exposure to pesticide were dead at two weeks, so the chemicals were
considered non-lethal for the purposes of the test.

Drs. Shaw and Pincetich are wildlife conservationists. But even industry
scientists working for Exxon and
the manufacturer of
Corexit itself admit that the stuff is toxic.

BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig has
punctured a mega pocket of highly pressurized methane gas - putting millions of
lives at risk in the Gulf. Oil and methane continue to surge into the Gulf from
the destroyed well, with little hope of abatement. Evidence is growing for a
devastating eruption of methane gas from deep beneath the sea floor. The
resulting methane gas explosion and series of tsunamis could absolutely
decimate the entire region.

If the methane bubble—a bubble that could be as big
as 20 miles wide—erupts with titanic force from the seabed into the Gulf,
reports Helium.com, "every ship, drilling rig and structure within the
region of the bubble will immediately sink. All the workers, engineers, Coast
Guard personnel and marine biologists participating in the salvage operation
will die instantly. An ocean bottom collapse would follow, instantaneously
displacing up to a trillion cubic feet of water or more and creating a towering
supersonic tsunami annihilating everything along the coast and well inland. Like
a thermonuclear blast, a high pressure atmospheric wave could precede the tidal
wave flattening everything in its path before the water arrives."

High Risk Area for Methane and Blowouts

The extreme methane risk was
well known before drilling commenced. Geologists warned oil companies working
in the area that massive pockets of methane gas exist deep beneath the sea
floor. The risk for a blowout and methane explosion was considered to be
extremely high.

BP chose to drill an ultra deep
well directly above such a pocket - this one as large as 20 miles in diameter.

Discoveries of natural gas
are, of course, an important part of exploration. But the pressures of these
methane pockets was predicted to be far higher than current technology can deal
with. Typical well head pressures are in the 1,500 pounds per square inch
range. Geologists warned that gas pressures in this area could range between
30,000 and 70,000 psi. Some reports indicate the actual pressure at the well
head is 100,000 psi.

No drilling equipment can handle this amount of pressure. Given the extreme
risks involved with drilling in this location, BP is keeping a tight lid on all
data regarding pressures and drilling depth. There is speculation that the
drilling went to at least 30,000 feet - far deeper than the 18,500 foot
drilling permit allowed. Even more speculation exists that BP was following
Russia's lead in searching for highly controversial "abiotic oil",
since biogenic oil and gas should not exist below the 15,000 foot level.

Evidence for a Serious Methane Gas Threat

The threat of a methane gas explosion in the Gulf has been attributed to fear
mongering. Is there any evidence to these claims? Robotic submarines are
returning some very alarming video footage of methane gas hazards. Cracks and
fissures are opening up on the sea floor over an area of several miles. A
number of "pock marks" have appeared on the sea floor as far as 20
miles away from the original Macondo blow out. Oil and methane gas is escaping
from areas that have never even been drilled.

Frighteningly, these fissures
appear to be growing and connecting with each other. The methane pock marks are
growing in size. Even worse, the weakened

sea floor is being heaved up into a massive, fracturing,
mound. A geological time bomb, previously locked away under miles of rock, has
been disturbed. Evidence is pointing to the very grim possibility that a
methane gas bubble, 15 to 20 miles in diameter, could indeed rupture the sea
floor and escape with unimaginable violence.

John Kessler of Texas A & M University, said "This is the most
vigorous methane eruption in modern history". The oil contains 40% methane
- much higher than the usual 5%. The USGS claims that 2,900 cubic feet of gas
is accompanying each barrel of oil from the well - also much higher than usual.

The EPA has found extremely high levels of other toxic gasses, such as
benzene and hydrogen sulphide. It appears that BP did drill an ultra deep well,
piercing an absolutely immense bubble of high pressure methane. Could they have
unleashed a disaster that is unfolding with no possibility of reversal?

How Could the Ultimate BP Disaster Kill Millions?

The worst case scenarios are truly horrific. If this methane gas bubble
ruptures the sea floor and unleashes itself, the devastation and loss of life
would be unprecedented in human history. The loss of life would not be limited
to oil field and spill clean up personnel - millions of lives all across the Gulf
States are at terrible risk.

The smallest problem: methane gas is not buoyant enough to float ships or oil
rigs. Any vessels in the area would immediately sink. Similarly, aircraft
cannot fly in methane - any aircraft would lose lift and simply fall out of the
sky.

The amount of water displaced by such a methane gas bubble would generate a
tsunami - likely of a magnitude that humanity has never seen before. A gigantic
cavity would be left where the methane existed - which would immediately flood
with sea water. Because of the extreme depths of the methane gas bubble
(possibly six miles), the temperatures are far above the boiling point of
water. The icy sea water would explosively convert to steam, increase in volume
dramatically, and erupt upwards to cause a second and possibly even larger
tsunami.

Looking at an elevation map of
the Gulf and eastern seaboard of the United States, it's clear to see what kind
of devastation a tsunami would cause. The loss of life could very well be in
the millions, making the Sumatra tsunami look trivial.

Transocean's drilling rig was destroyed by a methane gas explosion seconds
after the blowout. This explosion and fire claimed 11 lives. But what would
happen

55 million years ago, uplifting
tectonic plates created the Himalayas. Changes to the sea floor allowed mega
pockets of methane gas to be released. The result was an increase in global
temperature of 7 degrees Celsius. A temperature rise of this magnitude could
potentially submerge our cities and our best agricultural land. Hundreds of
millions of people, at the very least, could perish world wide through
starvation and economic collapse.

The troubled Macondo well, far
behind schedule, was turning into a financial horror show for BP. The crew,
supervisors, and even Halliburton were gravely concerned about a major blowout.
Blatant disregard for safety was shown right from the initial application
through to the final explosion and sinking of the rig. Their efforts to save a
few million dollars may dramatically change the course of history.

What if BP did punch an ultra
deep well directly into a gargantuan pocket of methane - a pocket so deep that
we have no experience with the pressures involved? What if the sea floor is
beginning to unzip? Could this methane bubble tear through several miles of
solid rock? Sedimentary rock, probably sandstone, isn’t very solid really. It
is already riddled with natural faults and has now been severely tampered with.

Will this liberated methane
detonate in a "biblical fireball"? Will the Gulf States be inundated
with a furious series of tsunamis? Will global warming accelerate at a pace we
could not have imagined?

These are a lot of very grim questions that no one can answer. The situation is
almost too frightening to believe. But ignoring the evidence won’t make it go
away. We’ve never experienced methane discharges or well pressures anywhere
near these levels, and something very terrible is happening deep in the Gulf.

Terrible enough that detonating
a nuclear blast to kill the well has been considered. As risky and radical as
it sounds, the heat could cause a durable layer of glass to form over the
entire problem. Or, it could make the problem worse - much worse...

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(CHICAGO) - In a desperate attempt to stop a huge area of the Gulf ocean
floor from possibly rupturing due to subterranean methane gas (leading to a
calamity no human has ever seen) BP has ripped a page from science fiction
books.

The
giant oil company is now quietly preparing to test a small nuclear device in a
frenzied rush against time to quell a cascading catastrophe. If successful they
will have the capability to detonate a controlled fusion generated pulse.

While
the world watches BP's attempt to contain the oil gusher at the former
Deepwater Horizon site, company officials have given the green light on an
astounding plan to use what is known as a nuclear EPFCG charge if all else
fails.

The Omega plan

Most
enterprises—whether business, government, or exploration—have a Plan B to fall
back on. To date, BP has attempted Plans B through N. Yet it is the last ditch
plan-the Omega plan-that hold the greatest risk. Yet that plan may be the final
hope to stop what some insiders now consider a catastrophe that could culminate
with a world-killing mass extinction event that modern civilization could not
survive.

At
a super-secret security base-CFB Suffield-located in southern Alberta, Canada,
area reports indicate that high level engineers, physicists and military
scientists are feverishly working to complete an ‘explosively pumped flux
compression generator’ (EPFCG).

According
to published scientific papers [see sources below] an EPFCG generator can be
powered by a very small, controlled fusion explosion-in other words, a tiny
nuclear bomb.

Why
the UK based BP has set up operations at CFB-Suffield is obvious: The company
already runs three oil rigs on the base, have worked with Canada’s chemical and
biological efforts on and off for almost 40 years, and have strong ties to the
Commonwealth’s infrastructure.

The
CFB Base, which incorporates DRDC Suffield, is one of research six Canadian
military facilities and critical to the security of the country. DRDC Suffield
is the lead facility for all of Canada’s engineering and weapons systems
R&D.

The EPFCG—a Star Wars super weapon

A
device that can only be used once, the EPFCG generates a high power electromagnetic
pulse. It achieves this by using a powerful explosive, preferably nuclear.
Advanced, nuclear driven EPFCGs can instantaneously create up to billions of
amperes and hundreds of terawatts. Such raw power exceeds lighting bolts by
huge orders of magnitude.

The
pulse can be shaped and directed and used to knock out electronics-or more
importantly in this case—to fuse virtually any material—including crumbling
rock strata deep under the sea. The fantastically energized pulse can also
compress objects to very high pressures and densities. [3]

According
to engineers familiar with the technology, the devices can generate plasma arcs
hotter than the surface of the sun that will melt and fuse materials in
nanoseconds.

A
special security force manned by members of AEGIS, a UK based paramilitary
security corporation similar to the old US Blackwater Security company, is
reported to have cordoned off the base. The security lid has clamped down hard
while the engineers and scientists work with the nuclear materials.

BP’s
secret Omega Plan kicked off in earnest on July 7th, 2010. According to sources
on the base the British Geological Survey (BGS), the United States Geological
Survey (USGS), BP and Halliburton have set up a test site at one of the drill
rigs.

While
the plan would admittedly only be executed if a worst case scenario seemed
imminent, some geo-chemists have expressed concerns that detonating an EPFCG in
the Gulf might ignite the methane.

June 22 (Reuters) - As much as 1 million times the
normal level of methane gas has been found in some regions near the Gulf of Mexico
oil spill, enough to potentially deplete oxygen and create a dead zone, U.S.
scientists said on Tuesday.

Texas A&M University oceanography professor John
Kessler, just back from a 10-day research expedition near the BP Plc (BP.L) oil
spill in the gulf, says methane gas levels in some areas are
"astonishingly high."

Kessler's crew took measurements of both surface and
deep water within a 5-mile (8 kilometer) radius of BP's broken wellhead.

"There is an incredible amount of methane in
there," Kessler told reporters in a telephone briefing.

In some areas, the crew of 12 scientists found
concentrations that were 100,000 times higher than normal.

"We saw them approach a million times above
background concentrations" in some areas, Kessler said.

The scientists were looking for signs that the
methane gas had depleted levels of oxygen dissolved in the water needed to
sustain marine life.

"At some locations, we saw depletions of up to
30 percent of oxygen based on its natural concentration in the waters. At other
places, we saw no depletion of oxygen in the waters. We need to determine why
that is," he told the briefing.

Methane occurs naturally in sea water, but high
concentrations can encourage the growth of microbes that gobble up oxygen
needed by marine life.

Kessler said oxygen depletions have not reached a
critical level yet, but the oil is still spilling into the Gulf, now at a rate
of as much as 60,000 barrels a day, according to U.S. government estimates.

"What is it going to look like two months down
the road, six months down the road, two years down the road?" he asked.

251 million years ago a mammoth undersea methane bubble caused massive
explosions, poisoned the atmosphere and destroyed more than 96 percent of all
life on Earth. [1] Experts agree that what is known as the Permian extinction
event was the greatest mass extinction event in the history of the world. [2]

55 million years later another methane bubble ruptured causing more mass
extinctions during the Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum (LPTM).

The LPTM lasted 100,000 years. [3]

Those subterranean seas of methane virtually reshaped the planet when they
explosively blew from deep beneath the waters of what is today called the Gulf
of Mexico.

Now, worried scientists are increasingly concerned the same series of
catastrophic events that led to worldwide death back then may be happening
again-and no known technology can stop it.

The bottom line: BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling operation may have triggered
an irreversible, cascading geological Apocalypse that will culminate with the
first mass extinction of life on Earth in many millions of years.

The oil giant drilled down miles into a geologically unstable region and may
have set the stage for the eventual premature release of a methane mega-bubble.

Ryskin’s methane
extinction theory

Northwestern
University's Gregory Ryskin, a bio-chemical engineer, has a theory: The
oceans periodically produce massive eruptions of explosive methane gas. He has
documented the scientific evidence that such an event was directly responsible
for the mass extinctions that occurred 55 million years ago. [4]

Many geologists concur: "The consequences of a methane-driven oceanic
eruption for marine and terrestrial life are likely to be catastrophic.
Figuratively speaking, the erupting region "boils over," ejecting a
large amount of methane and other gases (e.g., CO2, H2S) into the atmosphere,
and flooding large areas of land. Whereas pure methane is lighter than air,
methane loaded with water droplets is much heavier, and thus spreads over the
land, mixing with air in the process (and losing water as rain). The
air-methane mixture is explosive at methane concentrations between 5% and 15%;
as such mixtures form in different locations near the ground and are ignited by
lightning, explosions and conflagrations destroy most of the terrestrial life,
and also produce great amounts of smoke and of carbon dioxide..." [5]

The warning signs of an impending planetary catastrophe—of such great magnitude
that the human mind has difficulty grasping it-would be the appearance of large
fissures or rifts splitting open the ocean floor, a rise in the elevation of
the seabed, and the massive venting of methane and other gases into the
surrounding water.

Such occurrences can lead to the rupture of the methane bubble containment—it
can then permit the methane to breach the subterranean depths and undergo an
explosive decompression as it catapults into the Gulf waters. [6]

All three warning signs are documented to be occurring in the Gulf.

Ground zero: The Gulf
Coast

The people and property located on the greater expanse of the Gulf Coast
are sitting at Ground Zero. They will be the first exposed to poisonous, cancer
causing chemical gases. They will be the ones that initially experience the
full fury of a methane bubble exploding from the ruptured seabed.

The media has been kept away from the emergency salvage measures being taken to
forestall the biggest catastrophe in human history. The federal government has
warned them away from the epicenter of operations with the threat of a $40,000
fine for each infraction and the possibility of felony arrests.

Why is the press being kept away? Word is that the disaster is escalating.

Cracks and bulges

Methane is now streaming through the porous, rocky seabed at an
accelerated rate and gushing from the borehole of the first relief well. The
EPA is on record that Rig #1 is releasing methane, benzene, hydrogen sulfide
and other toxic gases. Workers there now wear advanced protection including
state-of-the-art, military-issued gas masks.

Reports, filtering through from oceanologists and salvage workers in the
region, state that the upper level strata of the ocean floor is succumbing to
greater and greater pressure. That pressure is causing a huge expanse of the
seabed-estimated by some as spreading over thousands of square miles
surrounding the BP wellhead-to bulge. Some claim the seabed in the region has
risen an astounding 30 feet.

The fractured BP wellhead, site of the former Deepwater Horizon, has become the
epicenter of frenetic attempts to quell the monstrous flow of methane.

The subterranean methane is pressurized at 100,000 pounds psi. According to Matt
Simmons, an oil industry expert, the methane pressure at the wellhead has
now skyrocketed to a terrifying 40,000 pounds psi.

Another well-respected expert, Dr. John Kessler of Texas A&M University has calculated
that the ruptured well is spewing 60 percent oil and 40 percent methane. The
normal methane amount that escapes from a compromised well is about 5 percent.

More evidence? A huge gash on the ocean floor—like a ragged wound hundreds of
feet long—has been reported by the NOAA
research ship, Thomas Jefferson. Before the curtain of the government
enforced news blackout again descended abruptly, scientists aboard the ship
voiced their concerns that the widening rift may go down miles into the earth.

That gash too is hemorrhaging oil and methane. It’s 10 miles away from the BP
epicenter. Other, new fissures, have been spotted as far as 30 miles distant.

Measurements of the multiple oil plumes now appearing miles from the wellhead
indicate that as much as a total of 124,000 barrels of oil are erupting
into the Gulf waters daily-that’s about 5,208,000 gallons of oil per day.

Most disturbing of all: Methane levels in the water are now calculated as being
almost one million times higher than normal.

Mass death on the
water

If the methane bubble—a bubble that could be as big as 20 miles
wide—erupts with titanic force from the seabed into the Gulf, every ship,
drilling rig and structure within the region of the bubble will immediately
sink. All the workers, engineers, Coast Guard personnel
and marine biologists participating in the salvage operation will die
instantly.

Next, the ocean bottom will collapse, instantaneously displacing up to a
trillion cubic feet of water or more and creating a towering supersonic tsunami
annihilating everything along the coast and well inland. Like a thermonuclear
blast, a high pressure atmospheric wave could precede the tidal wave flattening
everything in its path before the water arrives.

When the roaring tsunami does arrive it will scrub away all that is left.

A chemical cocktail
of poisons

Some environmentalist experts are calling what’s pouring into the land,
sea and air from the seabed breach ’a chemical cocktail of poisons.’

Areas of dead zones devoid of oxygen are driving species of fish into foreign
waters, killing plankton and other tiny sea life that are the foundation for
the entire food
chain, and polluting the air with cancer-causing chemicals and poisonous
rainfalls.

A report from one observer in South Carolina
documents oily residue left behind after a recent thunderstorm. And before the
news blackout fully descended the EPA released data that benzene levels in New
Orleans had rocketed to 3,000 parts per billion.

Benzene is extremely toxic and even short term exposure can cause agonizing
death from cancerous lesions years later.

The people of Louisiana have been exposed for more than two months—and the
benzene levels may be much higher now. The EPA measurement was taken in early
May. [8]

Doomsday

While some say it can’t happen because the bulk of the methane is frozen
into crystalline form, others point out that the underground methane sea is
gradually melting from the nearby surging oil that’s estimated to be as hot as
500 degrees Fahrenheit.

Most experts in the know, however, agree that if the world-changing event does
occur it will happen suddenly and within the next 6 months.

So, if events go against Mankind and the bubble bursts in the coming
months, Gregory Ryskin may become one of the most famous people in the world.
Of course, he won't have long to enjoy his new found fame because very shortly
after the methane eruption civilization will collapse.

Methane does have a very deleterious effect on all
aerobic marine life in that it depletes oxygen very rapidly in water. This is
the biggest concern, and can have greater impact on life than the toxicity of
both the oil and the dispersants combined, dangerous interactions and all. We
state the obvious when we say that all aerobic organisms needs oxygen, and that
such life will die very quickly when oxygen concentrations drops below critical
thresholds. As the methane rises through the higher layers of the Gulf of
Mexico aquatic strata where the water is warmer, this problem becomes worse due
to the fact that warmer water simply holds less oxygen than cold water.

The coming tropical storms and depressions, as well
as the hurricanes, will provide vectors of dissemination for the aforementioned
chemicals and contaminants to rain down on the many coastal communities, and
beyond.

Even a best
case scenario, where the oil and methane leaks are over. here is the damage
that has already resulted:

[4] Ryskin Theory
Huge combustible clouds produced by methane gas trapped under the seas and
explosively released could have killed off the majority of marine life, land
animals, and plants at the end of the Permian era—long before the dinosaurs
arrived.